Colwill, John , Farmer, Long Bush, Mr Colwill was born at Alternun, Cornwall, England, in 1856, and brought up to farming. He arrived at the Bluff in 1879, and immediately started work on a farm, and was afterwards employed for a short time at a sawmill. Subsequently Mr Colwill took up a farm of 215 acres at Forest Hill, where he remained for about six years, and in 1892, he acquired his present farm of 100 acres at Long Bush, which he has increased to 289 acres, and where he carries on mixed farming. Mr Colwill was a member of the Makarewa River Board; he served on the Long Bush school committee for eleven years, and is a church steward of the Primitive Methodist church at Kennington, where he is also superindent of the Sunday school. He was married, in July, 1888, to a daughter of Mr James Adamson, farmer, Grove Bush, and has one son and four daughters.